Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-06
GEITYsBUEa.
The Press en- the Lesson OF the Re-
union.

Philadelphia Inquirer: The reiinion OF
the Blue and Gray at Gettysburg, Inau-
Gursted on Saturday by the men who had
so vigorously contested that desperately
fought field twenty>iour years AGO and con-
tinued on Sunday and Monday by most
impressive proceedings, most clearly indi-
Gates the condition Of the popular feeling
regarding the efforts OF the political lenders
TO keep alive the enmities OF the war.
Among the soldiers who did the fighting
there are no such enmitics. They fought
and have made up. The victorious
logiOns have said, A" Let there be peace"
and the defeated forces have in good fifth
accepted their failure and all the conse.
quenccs that their failure implies. The
men who met at Gettysburg on Saturday
were not OF alien blood; they were all Of
one bloOd-they were Americans-and
having settled their difficulties In brave
and manly fashion, with equal courage, like
sons q one great and COMMON mother, the
Republic, they are again aS brothers, meet.
ing again after the lapse Of nearly quarter
OF q century OF peace, to fraternally
clasp hands, to recognize brave deeds, no
matter by whom done, and to bury forever
all memories OF sectional strife and ami.
mostly. It's not the heroic soldiers OF the
war who are trading in the preiudiceS and
aniinosities OF section and race, but the
politicians. who hope TO turn penny, hon
est or otherwise, by it against the next na-
tional election day. They should under
stand that the people. North and South,
want peace and fraternity, not war and
hatred. The lesson OF Gettysburg should
be taken 10 heart by them.
New York Herdid: Among all the i'm.
pressiye proceedings OF Independence Day
none will so thrill the national heart as
those that took place on The historic field Of
Gettysburg.
What happened there NAV be regarded
SIS the seal upon a compact OF recOncilia.
ton. We know how true was The amity,
bow absolute the placement OF bitterness
i'vt"VV" a.. i'".'i. -..d Sa"th before, but
nothing could sOallirm this cOfu,-I -sl-.ien
as the clasped hands aud friendly eyes that
met each other Yesterday on the spot where
Pickett charged aud where the stars and
stripes still flcw as they flew tWenty-iour
years ago.
French and English soldiers never came
together in friendship on the field Of
Waterloo after settling there the grim gage
Oi WgT. no such kindly gathering MAS
ever had by Scotch and English on the
den. 1t will be long before Germans and
Frenchn en- hail each other in like fashion
at Metz or sedan. But the meeting 1t
Gettysburg sprang from different impulses,
was made possible by yariInt il not by
unique circumstances.
What happened yesterday at Gettgsbug
* recorded elsewhere and speaks Tor Itself.
It will stir IN millions OF American hearts
feelings no less Keen and sympathits NJ
less responsive than were awakened q The
breasts Of the veterans who stood together
Oh this hallowed anniversary in sight OF
Round Top and Cemetery Hill.
New York IfOrid When the survivors
OF such scenes clasp hands ia frdern1l
union on the fields where their battle were
fought, who shall tear then apart! When
Federal and Confederate soldiers whose
eyes have looked into each others with bate
and fury through the smoke and ire OF
battle now beam with brotherly love, what
scheming politician shall induce them to
renew The passions OF the war? Th' Get
tySlurg rodnion kills forever the hope Of
the politician that there is yet one more
President in the bloody shirt.